Manager, Application Development

If you join our team, here are some of the perks you can expect:

• A competitive total rewards package with 4 weeks paid time off for full-time employees, work anniversary paid time off, paid volunteer time off, and 12 paid holidays
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with employer contributions to supercharge your Health Savings Account
• Up to a 4% match on 401(k) contributions
• Six weeks of fully paid parental leave
• An extensive Employee Assistance Program that provides personalized care options for your whole household
• Ample opportunity to learn, develop and grow with access to LinkedIn Learning, career and leadership development programs, job shadowing, a mentor program, and tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year

Location:

Basecamp, Broomfield

Summary/Objective:

The Application Development Manager owns the design, development, deployment, and support of web sites, web applications, API platforms, and integrations with core banking and lending systems for the credit union. They maintain and enhance a service-oriented architecture that can support the data needs of applications while also enabling the integration of Elevation’s siloed core banking, lending, marketing, MRM, BI, and digital platforms. This individual will enhance team’s capabilities to design, develop, monitor and support custom applications deployed to cloud environments and execute our hybrid cloud strategy.

Essential Functions include:

• Manages and supervises full stack engineering and core development team distributed across scrum teams and business lines. Responsibilities include overseeing resource administration, planning, allocation, and organization as needed.
• Works closely with the Enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) on scrum team delivery and attends appropriate stakeholder ceremonies.
• Creates a supportive team-oriented work climate that enables project and resource team members to develop professionally; and that values diversity, promotes teamwork and collaboration, and emphasizes quality, customer satisfaction, creativity, and cost-
• effectiveness.
• Demonstrates expertise and leadership in, design and development concepts, practices, procedures, and governance, ensuring the delivery of high-quality and efficient software solutions.
• Implement processes for continuous improvement of application management practices.
• Seeks feedback from users, analyzes performance metrics, and identifies areas for enhancement or innovation.
• Defines design patterns, develops & reviews code, and ensure that solutions adhere to Elevations’ coding, compliance, and information security standards. 
• Works with external vendors for integrated solutions.
• Stays current with vendor strategic roadmaps to influence the health and currency of our application architecture.

Reports to:

AVP of Application Engineering

Manages:

Full Stack Developers

Application Developers (Symitar Core Developers)

Required Skills, Education and Experience:

· 4-year college degree or equivalent work experience; B.S., Computer Science preferred.

· Six (6)+ years of hands-on application development and application integration experience.

· Demonstrated ability to design, develop, deploy, and maintain a pragmatic, modern web application in a production cloud environment.

· Demonstrated capability in leading and overseeing teams responsible for deploying applications on prominent cloud platforms, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

· Practical experience in establishing CI/CD pipelines for the automation of application deployment and testing procedures.

· Ability to influence executive leadership.

· Understands the principles of project management practices in an agile and iterative project management methodology.

Preferred Skills, Education and Experience:

· BS or MS in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent.

· Advanced experience integrating microservices architecture with legacy systems.

· Direct involvement in utilizing containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.

· Proficiency in using Infrastructure as Code(IaC) tools. i.e., Terraform, ARM templates or PowerShell scripting.

· Experience with server-side languages. i.e., NodeJS, SQL, JavaScript, and web services i.e., REST, JSON, XML, SOAP.

· Relevant certifications from cloud providers, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

· Knowledge and experience with IBM’s AIX operating system, Jack Henry & Associates (Symitar division) products including Episys and related (PowerOn) development.

· Knowledge of the ITIL framework and experience implementing engineering processes, procedures, and templates.

Work Environment:

Elevations uses multi-factor authentication to keep our data safe. As such, a personal smartphone is a requirement for employment with us. This job operates in an office setting and routinely uses standard office equipment.

Physical Requirements:

Sitting frequently, walking occasionally, use of hands frequently, hearing constantly, talking frequently, exerting up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally to lift, carry, push, pull, or move objects.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

Full time / 40 hours per week

Classification:

Exempt

Compensation Information:

The person hired into this position will likely earn between $110,331.31 and $151,705.55 plus annual bonus.

Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted hiring range based on factors such as relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, licensure requirements and/or skill level, and will be finalized at the time of offer.

Anticipated Application Window:

This role is anticipated to close within 35 days from the date of posting. However, if the position has not been filled, Elevations may keep the application period open longer.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.